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Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

How stupid are these people?

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

In after Baud. Damn.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

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  3. 3.

    Ed Drone

    Something you don’t know? Hmmmm… to do that, I have to learn what you DO know, and that’ll take too long.

    How about: The plural of “spouse” is “spice”? Is that the kind of factoid you’re looking for?

    I don’t have any of those. Sorry.

    Ed

  5. 5.

    r€nato

    Please tell me amk is a troll or snarking, I don’t wish to embarrass myself by taking it seriously when I shouldn’t.

  6. 6.

    joel hanes

    Kim Jong-Il once kidnapped a prominent South Korean actress and her film director husband, hoping to kick-start the North Korean movie industry. The result: a monster movie in which a lizard-shaped rice ball turns into a giant beast that eats iron. He brings peace to a village but then eats the heroine and dies. The end. — Bob Harris

  8. 8.

    Gin & Tonic

    Reuters tells me the FDA has approved yet another med1cation for h@rd0n improvement. I wouldn’t dare mention the name, in case FYWP filters are up to date.

  12. 12.

    r€nato

    @Gin & Tonic: Still waiting for Catholic bishops and Republican legislators to propose laws that allow employers to refuse to pay for boner pills on the grounds of religious liberty and moral conscience.

  13. 13.

    Mino

    Does anybody think the crash voter registration effort in Arizona has anything to do with a certain airport interaction? Ha, ha. I dearly hope he can pull it off.

  14. 14.

    Anoniminous

    Computer programs modeling fractal dimensions are more fun when you use Para-consistent Logic(s.)

  15. 15.

    Svensker

    Is “Doug-Jarvus Green-Ellis” now only a pleasant memory? Or will he reappear when the Bengals are playing?

    This is important information to have.

  17. 17.

    Culture of Truth

    Tell me something I don’t know.

    Lehman Brothers gave out almost $700 million to 50 employees in the months before its epic collapse in 2008.

    Surprisingly, they were not in senior management, and were not investment bankers or traders. Some employees were more highly paid than CEO Dick Fuld.

  19. 19.

    Culture of Truth

    Perhaps you knew that. but this?

    The man who holds the Guinness World Record for living the longest with a bullet in his head has died at age 103. His older brother accidentally shot him in 1917.

  27. 27.

    Roger Moore

    Tell me something I don’t know.

    In addition to the standard 20 amino acids, some organisms code for selenocysteine and pyrrolysine directly rather than producing them by post-translational modification.

  28. 28.

    accident queen

    well, they are pulling piles of mutant shrimp, crabs and fish with lesions all over them out of the Gulf but apparently no big deal to the gov’t or any commenters here who would rather fight about dressage horses. you’ve got your priorities straight!

  29. 29.

    daverave

    @r€nato:

    …and Lagunitas is going nation-wide with sales in all 50 states with the opening of their brewery in Chicago. IPA for all!!!1!

  33. 33.

    sandy

    recommended spark plug for a 1971 Model 70 John Deere lawn tractor is the Champion J-8. I’m sure you know the recommended gap so I won’t mention it.

  37. 37.

    Schlemizel

    @Gin & Tonic:
    I love the fact that if you put an@inthe middle of words this stupid thing assumes it MUST be an email address 8-{D

    I may put@them all@over now

  38. 38.

    accident queen

    @amk:

    Another one – mittbot is actually a human being.

    what proof do you have? i demand the original birth certificate.

  40. 40.

    Cato

    So why is Obambi using a historic event that unified our nation as a cheap campaign gimmick?

    Is this insulting to the men and women of our military? Especially since Obabmi said he didn’t believe he should use that event to “spike the football”, but that’s exactly what he’s doing.

    Cheap, tawdry, and unbecoming of a President.

  42. 42.

    Brachiator

    Tell me something I don’t know

    The early word on the Avengers movie, which has opened overseas, is that it is Big Fun.

  50. 50.

    Schlemizel

    As for things you don’t know – it takes about 14 inches of catheter to reach past the average mans prostate from the outside world.

  55. 55.

    Svensker

    @Cato:

    I didn’t know there was a President Obambi, but I’m sorry to hear about his bad behavior. I’m sure our current president is much smoother.

  56. 56.

    jl

    @Cato: No, that is Jeopardy. You are supposed to provide a statement for this game.

    As in

    I found out last night that the action can be a saddle point. I did not know that.

  59. 59.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    Interesting fact about AEDs: in the 30 years before they were first tested at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, not a single person had survived ventrical defibrilation. The first year they tested it, the nine people who suffered a heart attack due to ventrical defibrilation survived, 6 of whom were cared for by people who had never seen an AED before.

  62. 62.

    Schlemizel

    @Cato:
    Yeah instead he should have dressed up in a pretend flight suit (remember to stuff an extra pair of socks in the crotch) and pretend to land on an aircraft carrier that has been left circling in the ocean waiting for him to show up and then give a speech in front of a banner proclaiming a lie – then blame the Navy for his administration hanging the lie.

    THAT would be Presidential!

  63. 63.

    RossinDetroit

    You probably did not know that photons from the center of the galaxy that are hypothesized to be from annihilations of dark matter particles have the same (mass)energy as the Standard Model Higgs Boson is thought to have. Around 125 – 130Gev.
    Yup.
    And that’s not all. Dark Matter interacts with ordinary matter only through Gravity. And the Higgs Boson is thought to be the particle responsible for the field that imparts matter with Mass.
    See where I’m going here? I know you do.

  64. 64.

    Anoniminous

    Acetylcholine is used as a neurotransmitter in both the peripheral and central nervous system which is why some people – as evidenced in this thread – confuse the proper biological function of their asshole with their brain’s higher cognitive function(s.)

  66. 66.

    Cato

    @Svensker:

    He sure is our “coolest” President, but after four years of being led the biggest celebrity in the world, isn’t it time for someone who takes this job seriously and can get the job done instead of singing and dancing?

  73. 73.

    Schlemizel

    @Cato:
    I believe the Bin Laden job got done – something your flight suited manboyikin couldn’t do in 7 years

  74. 74.

    Brachiator

    The Movies that Changed Your Life

    When I was about nineteen or twenty, I saw an important critic on a talk show — I have no idea who this guy was — but something he said I’ve remembered ever since. He said, “Great art by definition changes your life. If you see Chaplin’s CITY LIGHTS, you’re a different person than before you saw it. It won’t necessarily make a huge change, but you’ll be changed. You’ll always have it with you.”
    __
    I think this is true. But I also think that OK, pretty good, good and very good has the CAPACITY to change us, if we happen to catch it at precisely the time it’s most likely to speak to us. That’s why the other day I asked you to tell me some of the movies that changed your life. Here they are in the above gallery, along with some of mine.
    __
    And keep them coming. Sky’s the limit.

    Oh, yeah, for me one of these films would be Marcel Carne’s Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis)

    And Hiroshi Ignaki’s Samurai Trilogy. Changed everything that I thought movies could be, and made me see color photography in film as an art in itself, not mere decoration.

  75. 75.

    Tone In DC

    Didn’t J. Cole ban Derf/wingnut-in-training/this bag of hammers recently? Time for a repeat performance, maybe?

  76. 76.

    RossinDetroit

    @sandy:

    The recommended spark plug for the Kawasaki FH541V 17HP V-twin engine is Champion RCJ8Y, with gap of 0.030″.
    Now I need to go debug a propane floor polishing machine.

  77. 77.

    Hill Dweller

    @Cato: The celebrity criticism worked wonders in ’08. Keep f’n that chicken.

    As for the Bin Laden killing, you shameless assholes were out there immediately trying to give Bush credit for it.

  78. 78.

    amk

    @Cato: didn’t mittbot try his hand in singing publicly and utterly failed in that ? As I said, I so lurv that kenyan is yanking your racist chains that you pant like a rabid dog.

  81. 81.

    RossinDetroit

    @joel hanes:

    The scientific name of the American Robin is
    Turdus migratorius

    And it’s a thrush, unrelated to the English Robin. Superficial resemblance.

  82. 82.

    Tone In DC

    @amk:

    As I said, I so lurv that kenyan is yanking your racist chains that you pant like a rabid dog.

    Dude, there is NO need to insult rabid dogs like that.

  84. 84.

    BGinCHI

    @Cato: In other words, it’s nice to have a brother who can sing and dance, but let’s get a serious white guy back in there, umkay?

    You could fuck up a one-car funeral.

  86. 86.

    Cato

    @Schlemizel:

    Bin Laden is dead not just because of Obama, but because of the efforts of and intelligence gathering techniques developed under President Bush, and most of all because the Navy SEALS kick ass.

  88. 88.

    Schlemizel

    @Cato:
    Who blamed him? I merely asked you to compare and contrast. Next try to imagine that other empty headed son of wealth in the White House with his strong convictions to be whatever everyone wants him to be.

    The sad fact (for people like you) is that the choice this fall will be between a guy who earned his way in life & has made progress in the White House or a guy born on third base & stole home from working people.

  93. 93.

    PeakVT

    @gbear: Does it still suck? Last version I used was 12. Sketchup is a joy to use in comparison (once you realize you need to group things, otherwise the model is a big sticky mess).

  100. 100.

    Cato

    @rlrr:

    I see someone didn’t notice the much lower than expected growth this quarter.

    We’ve had enough “song and dance” from the current resident of the White House–time for real and serious leadership on the economy.

  104. 104.

    Chyron HR

    @Cato:

    Tap Dancing War on Moms Jerimiah Wright Secret Service Prostitutes #OIW VICTORY!!

    You know, if any of these alleged controversies were actually sticking to Obama, the GOP wouldn’t have to keep switching to a different one every single day. Just saying.

  109. 109.

    Tractarian

    Andrew Sullivan calls the GOP a “radical fundamentalist and anti-government religious movement, dedicated to a core rejection of almost everything modernity brings but money.”

    Say what you will about Andrew; that’s a pretty spot-on description.

  116. 116.

    Rosalita

    @Schlemizel:

    Yeah instead he should have dressed up in a pretend flight suit (remember to stuff an extra pair of socks in the crotch) and pretend to land on an aircraft carrier that has been left circling in the ocean waiting for him to show up and then give a speech in front of a banner proclaiming a lie – then blame the Navy for his administration hanging the lie.

    yeah we’ll never forget Bush’s nuts trussed up like that…yeesh. some local here had a statue made up of that and out it out in the garden in front of his auto parts shop.

  117. 117.

    trollhattan

    @Schlemizel:

    Not only did he not “get ‘er done” he told us it wasn’t important, and dismantled the Bin Laden unit.

    Yeah, miss that dude.

    (Still chuckling at Biden’s reformulation of the GM/Bin Laden quip yesterday.)

  118. 118.

    Hill Dweller

    @Cato: What is the Republicans’ solution? More austerity? Tax cuts for the wealthy?

    The Republican caucus was told by their own economists last year that budget cuts would slow growth, but the morons went right ahead and threatened to default on our debt(which also temporarily brought credit flow to a halt) in order to get them.

    Your party is intellectually and morally bankrupt. You’ve got nothing substantive to offer, so you resort to stoking resentment and fear.

  120. 120.

    Cato

    @trollhattan:

    Why not have let GM go bankrupt? No one bailed out airlines, steel companies and others when they hit the rocks. The government set a very dangerous precedent. Not only did they bail out a private entity using public money, they ignored rule-of-law in doing it (just ask the bondholders who somehow ended up behind the UAW when the spoils were divvied).

    Your post implies a belief that the end (saving GM) justifies the means (an outside-the-law backruptcy process). Wow… when we are governed by whim instead of law we’re on a very slippery slope indeed.

    The government has recouped just over $22 billion of an almost $50 billion loan to GM. GM posted a profit last year of $7.6 billion.

    The government shouldn’t be in the business of picking winners and losers in the economy.

  123. 123.

    priscianusjr

    There are the known knowns; the unknown knowns; the known unknowns; and the unknown unknowns. No one has to tell you what you already know you know; you didn’t ask us to tell you the knowns that you don’t know (whatever that would mean); and for the known unknowns, the logical thing would be for you to ask specific questions, which you didn’t. That leaves only the mystery of the unknown unknowns.
    But if you don’t know what you don’t know, how would I? I mean, I might very well know it, but I wouldn’t know that you don’t, and neither would you. So, reluctantly, I must refuse your request.

  125. 125.

    Elias

    @daverave: Wait, what do you mean Lagunitas is opening a brewery in Chicago and going nationwide? Am I still gonna be able to get my Undercover Investigation Shutdown Ale from their little shop in Petaluma or not? Cause I don’t want a west coast beer that’s being made in Chicago and then shipped back to where it originally came from.

  126. 126.

    Corner Stone

    You may not want to know this, but reading recent actions by the unbelievably bad D Senator from MO, just reinforces my take that the R’s will retake the Senate.

    And as a condom to idiots here, no, that does not mean I endorse that outcome. But that is the outcome that will happen.

  131. 131.

    trollhattan

    @Cato:

    Money well spent. We’ll recoup every penny and have saved a million or more jobs as a direct consequence, both at the two companies and related suppliers and other industries. Sure came in handy after the Japan quake and tsunami paralyzed their auto companies, now didn’t it?

    Recession vs. depression–compare and contrast.

  132. 132.

    Corner Stone

    @rlrr:

    @Shit for Brains

    Damn you. I clicked on this link to determine it was not, in fact, referencing amk.
    Which I would have put money on given the moniker.

  139. 139.

    Corner Stone

    @Mino: Obviously. But she’s biting off half a loaf. And her opponent owns the whole loaf.
    She’s done.

  142. 142.

    Mino

    @Tractarian: I remembered the airlines after 9/11.

    Does it count as a bailout if federal guns break steel mill strikes? That has happened several times.

  145. 145.

    Jacquie

    I have four extra vertebrae in my neck that were discovered when I had open MRIs after a car accident. True story.

  147. 147.

    priscianusjr

    @Cato:

    Your post implies a belief that the end (saving GM) justifies the means (an outside-the-law backruptcy process).

    Well! Thanks for sharing.
    Your comment is a fine example of question-begging (petitio principii). It is normal to believe that the end justifies the means. If you get good results, you must have been doing something right. “Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” (Matthew 7:16).
    The only time the statement “the end justifies the means” would have the meaning you want here, is when the means are morally bad. But that is the very point at issue — you believe in a philosophy that says these means are a priori bad. DougJ and most of us do not believe that. I will go further, you believe in a philosophy that says these means must have bad consequences and you will search and search until you find them, because you have to rationalize your philosophy. Meanwhile most of us believe this is not high-order metaphysics or theology, it’s just practical governance for the common good, and there are means available to solve problems. If we believed those means were morally wrong, we would not use them either. But we believe that they are not only unobjectionable, but praiseworthy. So you can vote for Romney and we’ll vote for Obama.

  149. 149.

    trollhattan

    @Jacquie:

    Wow, any giraffes in your ancestry that you’re aware of? What the heck, if anything, are you supposed to do differently, armed with this bit of information?

  156. 156.

    ornery_curmudgeon

    @accident queen:
    well, they are pulling piles of mutant shrimp, crabs and fish with lesions all over them out of the Gulf but apparently no big deal to the gov’t or any commenters here who would rather fight about dressage horses. you’ve got your priorities straight!

    That is because something can be done about BJuice attacking dressage, and there’s f-all that can be done about the Gulf Oil spill at this point.

    I join in crying over spilled oil, but stopping a stupid meme has value too. Dressage seeks harmony with nature, btw, so it might be more relevant than you think.

  157. 157.

    Brachiator

    Afternoon of a faun

    Photographer James Chang captured some delightful video of a newborn fawn resting on the doorstep of his parents’ California home.
    __
    At first, Chang was worried that the fawn was injured and called 9-1-1. He was told not to worry and to simply give the baby deer some space in case its mother was nearby.
    __
    “I freaked out, because I thought it was hurt and needed help,” Chang told KSBW News.
    __
    But sure enough, after a short amount of time, Change noticed the fawn’s mother eating grass across the street. Chang’s own mother told the Today Show the adult deer eventually walked across the street and gently “nudged” her fawn, who then slowly rose to its feet and began its “newborn wobbly walk” back into the wilderness.

  159. 159.

    RossinDetroit

    Propane gives you a (relatively) clean-burning internal combustion engine.

    Victory is mine! It was just bad spark plugs. Probably the original ones, with 968 hours on the clock. Purrs like a kitten now. A dirty, hot, noisy 450lb kitten.

  160. 160.

    RossinDetroit

    @Jacquie:

    I have four extra vertebrae in my neck that were discovered when I had open MRIs after a car accident. True story.

    You’re part sloth. They’re the only vertebrates with a nonstandard neck vertebrae count. Giraffes have the same number as us.

  162. 162.

    Valdivia

    I wish I had my factoids up to date.
    Instead I will confess I can’t even read about all this bacon without wanting to eat some. Yum.

  165. 165.

    Amir Khalid

    @Clime Acts:
    Your “portraicatures” are, how shall I put this, interesting. Have you, by any chance, had them featured at Regretsy.com?

  166. 166.

    ruemara

    I get to broadcast the local county races. I’m actually looking forward to it. Say one thing about this job, I’ve learned so much more than I thought I would about the American political processes. And Labour Law.

  167. 167.

    daverave

    @Elias:

    no,no,no… they are building a second (actually duplicate from what I read) brewery in Chicago so they can supply the east coast, etc.

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